The U.S. military could have kicked in doors to raid a suspected terrorist cell in the United States without a warrant under a Bush-era legal memo the Justice Department made public on Monday.
The memo, from October 23, 2001, also said constitutional free-speech protections and a prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure could take a back seat to military needs in fighting terrorism inside the country.
It was one of nine previously undisclosed memos and legal opinions which shed light on former President George W. Bush’s legal guidance as he launched a war against terrorism after the September 11 attacks.
“The government’s compelling interests in wartime justify restrictions on the scope of individual liberty,” it said.
Other memos held that the president had broad power to detain U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism and to suspend treaty obligations on issues as seen fit.
The memos depict an administration apparently determined to assert sweeping powers for the president after the shock of September 11, and add fuel to critics’ charges that fundamental constitutional protections were threatened in the process.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 am
All these laws were designed for the American people, not some CIA created “terrorist cell” what a joke ! They are designed to keep the masses under foot. It is moronic to think that we will take back our nation without force. Those of you that believe that dont know your history.
1.You say take it the polls? The polls have been rigged since the powers that be in our government killed JFK. And no one even asked why or how..
2.The Representitives have all been bought off.
3.You now have a puppet president of the former regime that controls him.
4.They intend to disarm you. (by this time if you dont get it, youre an idiot)
5.They have driven your nation into poverty.
6.They are killing your children with vaccinations.
7.The Supreme Court is a panel of Attorneys that worked for all these corporations under Rumsfeld and Chainey etc.
You people who think you will march down Pennsylvania Ave and shout and make change are Fools. They photograph each one of you like they do We Are Change in new york. Then they eliminate one by one. You people are cowards. Wake up. You are as bad as our politicians.
Oh and Mr. Social Viability you need to wake up. Do you know what they are going to do to you when they find you are trying to start your own currency in America? Have you researched it? They will treat you exactly how they will treat everyone else who they deam to be a traitor.
Charles Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
March down to Pen Ave, and make changes by shouting… LOL
March ON Pen Ave, and start shooting… that’s the only thing that’s going to make an impression.
If your going to die, be carted off to a Fema Death camp, etc… I say bring the fight to their door, and let the executions for treason begin.
Don’t die for your freedom, make them die for your freedom.
Social Viability Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Okay, Charles. Show us how it’s done, tough guy.
Go on down to Penn Ave and start shooting. We all know how that is going to end.
It will end with you full of lead and legislators using the incident as an excuse to pass laws on the rest of us.
And to the genius in the first post, you call people cowards and then tell me to wake up and encourage ME to be a coward. I know damn well what they’ll try and do to me. I’m prepared to defend myself. And I have enough sense to know that if I take up arms and launch an unprovoked attack the govn, then I am no better than they are.
If we simply disconnect from their control grid, build societies and economies on our own terms according to rational principles and then defend ourselves when they come after us, we have a shot.
It worked for the Founding Fathers.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
Darkhorse Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
more memos http://www.propublica.org/special/missing-memos
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 am
You’re preaching to the choir. Very well said.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am
As there is no such thing as original thought, here this is the key to victory right here period, plain, and as simple as it can get. “There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” – Mario Savio
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
And to further the first point made here, we cannot continue to play by their rules. When a candidate as Ron Paul tries to be polite and speak out reseredly, we’re not furthering the cause. They control the game and the rules, so to continue this silly protesting nonsense is inane. Even the media doesn’t report on the protests much except to belittle it in some way. Much like a guerilla war, the work must be done quietly and in preperation for the right moment. Passive resistance is acceptance.
When you drive down the roads, don’t speed. Use your turn signals, don’t run the yellow lights. Dress normally, the whole goth or urban slum look only makes you stand out to the police state. Our camoflauge as Alex says, is to blend in and not to provoke the police. Don’t further fund the police state by allowing yourselves to receive tickets and other citations. If you have family or friends that are police, let your disdain for their profession be clear and educate them on what they’re being used for. Do not call upon leviathan’s strong arm against your neighbor unless it is a matter of life and death.
Stay out of the military and encourage others to do the same. Civil service positions can be used to work inside of leviathan much as the fictional character Colonel Hogan, used his “imprisonment” as a charade to undermine the system. Pay as few taxes to the system as possible. When government officials ask for information, give as little info as possible or just lie (such as, do you have firearms in your house?).
It’s obvious this is all coming down to one solution, and voting won’t be it.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
They did more than “kick down some doors” in Waco.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
we can have all the evidence in the world and nothing is going to happen until our current president takes a stand and says we are going to prosecute bush but that will never happen because he wont go after his own family.the states need to throw out our current goverment, put us back on the gold standard things will be tough but well know in the end our goverment is going to work for the best interest of the american people and our constitution that so many in washington think is just a “goddamn piece of paper.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
you are all right but how many here are willing to do more. I know that being on this site and talking to each other is very important but how many are willing to start meeting, organizing, and really fighting back. lets not wait for them to make the first move if we do it might be to late
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
The memos were released by the Obama administration YET this site goes out of its way not to mention anything good done by Obama. I wonder why? could it be that this site is a right wing religious propaganda site?
Darkhorse Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
To inbred: anything good done by the administration!? what tha! no “good” has been done, to be reported that is why. why were the memos now posted? has all this been halted? hell no. If you have not woken up by now, then comming to this site is a waste of your time and you do not belong here. according to your final remark, you are a mere detractor, perhaps just ignorant, that is curable, but otherwise stupid. then again you may be an obamanoid.
Wake Up Call for "admin" Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Quotation by Darkhorse:
“anything good done by the administration!? what tha! no “good” has been done, to be reported that is why.”
And that is why yourself and this website will never rise above the level of propaganda.
You are a PrisonPlanet and Alex Jones sheep. He brainwashes you into a hate frenzy where everything the government does is bad and it NEVER does anything good. How sad for you. What an utter wasted brain and life.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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March 3rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm